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UF School of Art + Art History School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida College of the Arts. 🩷 Most of our programs have a focus on socially-engaged, global research.

Organized within the College of the Arts at the University of Florida, the mission of the School of of Art + Art History (SA+AH) is to nurture a culture of critical inquiry in scholarly and creative pursuits. The faculty within the SA+AH seek to empower each individual student with knowledge, skills, and insight to thoughtfully respond to our changing world. The SA+AH is driven by the knowledge that visual and scholarly research is vital to the work of the larger university and that this research enhances the lives of its regional, national and international communities. Studio programs in art and design view production as an expanded practice - one that is interdisciplinary, inclusive and often collaborative. School of Art + Art History faculty publish, curate and exhibit widely and internationally. They bring their scholarship and production into their teaching, offering innovative, engaged learning experiences to their students. The school has 430 undergraduate students, and more than 120 graduate students. Degree programs include the B.A., B.F.A., M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. Areas of study include art history, art education, museum studies, graphic design, and studio art (art + technology, ceramics, creative photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture). Also a part of the School of the 4Most Gallery and the University Galleries - University Gallery, Gary R. Libby Gallery, and Grinter Gallery - which provide exhibition space for professional and student artwork. The University of Florida is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design. The art education program is accredited by NCATE.

🌵 Join us for a unique symposium at Emerson Alumni Hall this weekend, October 16-17!Topic – Creative Commodities: Art,...
10/15/2026

🌵 Join us for a unique symposium at Emerson Alumni Hall this weekend, October 16-17!

Topic – Creative Commodities: Art, Ecology and the Spanish Empire 🌟

➡️ See Slide 2 for detailed panel schedule!

Free and open to the public, this two-day symposium brings together nine scholars of colonial Latin America from across the US and Mexico to explore the intersections of art, environment, materiality and colonialism in ten stimulating talk panels. Participants may choose to attend as few or as many of the panels as they’d like.

The invitees work across disciplines including art history, history and Spanish literature and language. The symposium will conclude on Saturday from 2:00-4:00 p.m. with a keynote roundtable discussion titled “Beyond the Beautiful: Lessons from the Ecocritical Study of Spanish Colonial Art and Culture”, featuring all invitees in a dialogue about the themes and issues that emerged during the symposium.

UF College of the Arts

Join us TOMORROW for the Opening Reception of An Unreasonable Commitment to the Square ◼️◻️◾◽▪️▫️🏺 A solo exhibition by ...
10/12/2026

Join us TOMORROW for the Opening Reception of An Unreasonable Commitment to the Square ◼️◻️◾◽▪️▫️

🏺 A solo exhibition by Kelsey Barton (Kelsey Barton (ケルシー・バートン), MFA Ceramics '27)

⏰ Tuesday, October 13 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

📍 4Most Gallery

🌟 Visit 4Most Gallery for artist statement and more info!!

🌟 Join the SAAH! 📣 We’re looking for an Assistant Professor of Printmaking in the Expanded Field 🎨🔗 Application link (in...
10/05/2026

🌟 Join the SAAH! 📣 We’re looking for an Assistant Professor of Printmaking in the Expanded Field 🎨

🔗 Application link (in bio): https://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/541543/assistant-professor-in-printmaking-in-the-expanded-field

ℹ️ To ensure full consideration, all application documents must be submitted by December 4, 2026.

The School of Art + Art History in the College of the Arts seeks an Assistant Professor of Studio Art with expertise in printmaking in the expanded field to join our forward-looking interdisciplinary program at a top-ranked public university. We seek an innovative artist-educator to lead the development of printmaking curricula in the expanded field. The ideal candidate has an active studio practice that engages the complex materiality, history, and theories of printmaking, as well as emerging technologies and methods, and their creative research is informed by contemporary art theories and practice. They will have a strong knowledge of historical and contemporary reproductive and fabrication media that they present as a vibrant and relevant technology. The successful candidate will demonstrate a clear commitment to interdisciplinary artistic practices with an emphasis on printmaking, including DIY strategies, ‘maker tools,’ and historical and future-focused print methods and ideas.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

‼️ EVENT POSTPONED | One Million Counterextinctions, Stage 2, at Depot Park One Million Counterextinctions, Stage 2, at ...
10/02/2026

‼️ EVENT POSTPONED | One Million Counterextinctions, Stage 2, at Depot Park

One Million Counterextinctions, Stage 2, at Depot Park has been postponed due to inclement weather and will NOT be occurring this evening at Depot Park from 5-7 PM.

The event WILL be rescheduled for a later date for November and will be communicated following confirmation from event organizers. We appreciate your understanding and apologize for any inconvenience.

🌟 Join the SAAH! 📣 We’re looking for an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Expanded Field 🏺🔗 Application link (in bi...
10/02/2026

🌟 Join the SAAH! 📣 We’re looking for an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Expanded Field 🏺

🔗 Application link (in bio): explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/541544/assistant-professor-in-ceramics-in-the-expanded-field

ℹ️ To ensure full consideration, all application documents must be submitted by December 4, 2026.

The School of Art + Art History in the College of the Arts seeks an Assistant Professor of Studio Art with expertise in ceramics in the expanded field to join our forward-looking interdisciplinary program at a top-ranked public university. The ideal candidate has an active studio practice that engages the complex materiality and history of clay and craft, as well as emerging ceramic technologies and methods. Their creative practice is informed by contemporary art theories and practice.

We seek an innovative artist-educator to lead the development of ceramics in the expanded field curricula. The ideal candidate will have strong collaborative, communication and leadership skills. They will have experience and knowledge in wheel-based ceramic techniques, hand building/sculpture/figurative techniques, ceramic glazing and surface finishing techniques and firing theory and methodology.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating paradigmatic shifts in the arts and beyond. As artists and scholars, we embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our students and faculty to shape that experience fearlessly through critical study, creative practice, and provocation. We seek a colleague who identifies as a change-maker. We seek a colleague who will position emerging artists and researchers as catalysts for justice on local and global levels.

📢🤠 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OPEN 📢🤠🎉 The Submission Portal is now OPEN for the UF School of Art and Art History's 2027 Jurie...
09/30/2026

📢🤠 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS OPEN 📢🤠

🎉 The Submission Portal is now OPEN for the UF School of Art and Art History's 2027 Juried Student Exhibition!!

✅ Scan the QR code or click the link in bio 👀🏃

‼️ GENERAL INFO ‼️
🙌 Submissions are open to all UF SAAH Undergraduate Majors and Graduate Degree Program Candidates.
⏰ The submission portal is open NOW from Wednesday, September 30, 2026 until Sunday, November 1, 2026, at 11:59 PM EST.
💻 You must use your UFL email address to access the form and can only submit ONE copy. However, responses are EDITABLE until the November 1 deadline. Just click SUBMIT to update and save your changes!
🖌️ Students may submit up to 3 works for consideration.

🖤🌟 EXHIBITION INFO 🌟🖤
🗓️ Dates: February 5 - March 5, 2027
📍 Venue: Gary R. Libby University Gallery
🏅 Juror: Amy Galpin, Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Museum of Art and Design (MOAD), Miami Dade College

⁉️ If you have any questions or need guidance during the submission process, please feel free to contact 2027 JSE Coordinator Jiwon Seo at [email protected] for assistance.

🟥 What does a tortoise need when the ground gets too hard to dig? 🟥On Friday, October 2 from 5-7 PM on the Hill at Depot...
09/28/2026

🟥 What does a tortoise need when the ground gets too hard to dig? 🟥

On Friday, October 2 from 5-7 PM on the Hill at Depot Park, join the SAAH and other community members to imagine infrastructure that will allow local species to survive the climate conditions they face in 2045. 🐢🦉🐿️🐸

One Million Counterextinctions is a multi-stage, multi-year civic project led by Conrad Cheung (Assistant Professor of 3D + Extended Media) in partnership with Alachua County Commissioner Anna Prizzia and the Office of Resiliency. By 2045, rising heat, saltwater intrusion, habitat loss and seasonal disruption will push dozens of local species past thresholds they can't come back from. The species our lives depend on have no say in how cities build; this project proposes a city-level prototype for designing multispecies infrastructure as a public, non-expert endeavor.

At Depot Park, you'll be introduced to a local species and the specific climate scenario it faces by 2045, and design a response by drawing or modeling: a habitat, a system, a tool — something no one has imagined yet. No expertise necessary and there are no single solutions; the event is free to the public, open to all ages, and you can drop in at any time. 

Every design is credited to its maker and enters a permanent, open-source public archive at counterextinctions.com — already home to more than 250 community-authored designs — free for anyone to build. The project's first installations, selected from that archive, will be fabricated at functional scale and sited on public land across Gainesville, where the species they were designed for will test them as real infrastructure.



🟧 What does an owl need when the night never cools? 🟧

On Friday, October 2 from 5-7 PM on the Hill at Depot Park, join the SAAH and other community members to imagine infrastructure that will allow local species to survive the climate conditions they face in 2045. 🐢🦉🐿️🐸

One Million Counterextinctions is a multi-stage, multi-year civic project led by Conrad Cheung (Assistant Professor of 3D + Extended Media) in partnership with Alachua County Commission

👀‼️ SAVE THE DATE: September 30, 2026🖌️🎨 2027 Juried Student Exhibition submissions open at 11:30 AM ⏰🌟 Prepare to show...
09/25/2026

👀‼️ SAVE THE DATE: September 30, 2026
🖌️🎨 2027 Juried Student Exhibition submissions open at 11:30 AM ⏰

🌟 Prepare to showcase your artistic talent for the 2027 School of Art and Art History’s Juried Student Exhibition!!Open to all SAAH Undergraduate Majors and Graduate Degree Program Candidates.

🗓️ Exhibition Dates: February 5 - March 7, 2027
📍 Exhibition Venue: Gary R. Libby University Gallery

The SAAH welcomes Benedicta Opoku-Mensah as our 2026-27 Artist-in-Residence and Curator for the 4Most Gallery! 🤠🌟🩷Benedi...
09/23/2026

The SAAH welcomes Benedicta Opoku-Mensah as our 2026-27 Artist-in-Residence and Curator for the 4Most Gallery! 🤠🌟🩷

Benedicta Opoku-Mensah (Benedicta Opoku-Mensah) is an interdisciplinary, material and process-based artist from Ghana. Working across sculpture, performance, poetry, installation and hybrid object-making, she explores the cultural meanings embedded in materials and everyday objects. By disrupting their conventional functions, she questions how gender, class and colonial histories influence perceptions of labor, craftsmanship and material value. Through absurdity, hybridity, humor and storytelling, she creates objects that blur the boundaries between utility and adornment, familiarity and estrangement, inviting new ways of engaging with the material world.

Benedicta earned her BA in Integrated Rural Art and Industry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, and received her MFA from UF. Her works have been shown at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Alabama; Mattie Kelly Art Center in Niceville, Florida; and the Historic Thomas Center, Cade Museum and Cotton Club Museum in Gainesville.

Join us in welcoming Benedicta and stay tuned for more SAAHmazing highlights!

09/22/2026

Excavating a Legacy: Dr. Kathleen Deagan
Marston Science Library, 2nd floor
August 20 - December 18, 2026

Dr. Kathleen Deagan began her career as one of only a few women archaeologists. Despite the professional challenges that brought, she pioneered historical archaeology techniques that are utilized worldwide. Since 1972, she has excavated in St. Augustine, Florida. Her work there led to one of her most significant achievements, identifying Ft. Mose, the first free Black community in what would later become the United States. Today, after more than 50 years in the field, she is a world-renowned scholar who continues to publish books and excavate historic sites.

Excavating a Legacy was curated by Maile McCall, in partial fulfillment of a Master of Arts in Museum Studies (UF). McCall worked with Gifford Waters (Collections Manager for Historical Archaeology, Florida Museum of Natural History) and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler (Exhibits Director, Smathers Libraries) to research and create the exhibit. It was designed by Katiana Bagué (Exhibits Associate, Smathers Libraries) and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler. The exhibit features items from the Smathers Libraries, excerpts from oral history interviews, and artifacts from the Florida Museum of Natural History, where Dr. Deagan was Curator of Historical Archaeology for 28 years. Exhibition highlights include 16th, 17th, and 18th century archaeological artifacts, several of Dr. Deagan’s numerous publications, and personal letters and ephemera.

The exhibit is on view on the 2nd floor of Marston Science Library August 20, 2026 – December 18, 2026. The building is open to the public Monday through Friday 8:00a.m. – 10:00p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 10:00am – 6:00pm except for university holidays and semester breaks. For exceptions and holidays view the building hours on the Libraries’ shared calendar. All exhibitions are open to the public and free of charge.

Curated by Maile McCall, under the guidance of Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler and in partial fulfillment of a Master of Arts in Museum Studies

Featuring items from Smathers Libraries and the Florida Museum of Natural History

Contact
Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler
Exhibits Director, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
[email protected]

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